Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-01

across the heavens responding: Eyes.
yes, we are sisters" Sir Sidney Smith
in prison was playing lawn tennis in
the yard and the ball flew over the
wall. Another ball containing letters
was thrown back, and so communica-
ton was opened with the outside world,
and Sidney Smith escaped in time to
defeat Bonaparte's Egyptian expedi-
ton. What a small accident connected
with that vast result! Sir Robert Peel
from a pattern he drew on the back Of
a pewter dinner plate got suggestions
of that which led TO the important in
v~ention by which calico is printed.
Nothing in
GODS UNIVERSE
swings at loose ends. Accidents are
only Gods way Of turning a leaf in the
book of his eternal DEGREES. From orr
cradle to our grave there Is a path all
marked out. Each event in our life is
connected with every other event in
eur life. Our loss may be the most d.
rect road to our gain. Our defeats
and victories are twin brothers. The
whole direction of your life was
changed by something which at the
time seemed to you a triiie. while some
occurrence which seemed tremendous
affected you but little. The Rev. Dr..
Kennedy. of Basking Ridge, New Jer-
sey, vent into his pulpit n Sabbath
and by a strange freak Of memory for
got his subject and forgot his text and
in great embarrassment rose before his
audience and announced the circum-
stance and declared himself entirely
unable to preach; then launched forth
in a few earnest words of entreaty and
warning which resulted in the out.
breaking of the mightiest
REVIVAL OF RELIGION
ever known in that state, a revival of
religion that resulted in churches still
standing and in the conversion of a
large number of men who entered the
Gospel ministry who have brought
their thousands into the kingdom Of
God. Gods plans are magnificent be-
yond all comprehension. He moulds
us, turns and directs us, and we know
il not. Thousands of years are to Him
but as the flight of a shuttle. The
most terrific occurrence does not make
God tremble. and the most triumphant
achievement Goes not lift him ipto rap
ture. That n great thought of God
goes on through the centuries, and ma
tons rise and fall, and eras pass, and
the world itself changes, but God still
keeps the undivided mastery, linking
event to event and century to century.
To God they are all one event, one his
tory, one plan, one development, one
system. Great and marvellous are Thy
works, Lord God Almighty.
Furthermore: We learn from this
story the propriety of
LAYING UP o THE FUTURE.
During seven years of plenty Joseph
prepared for the famine, and when il
came he had a crowded storehouse.
The life Of most men in a worldly re-
spect is divided into years of plenty
and famine. 1t is seldom that any man
passes through life without at least
!, seven years OF plenty. During these
/, seven prosperous years your business
bears a rich harvest. You hardly
know where all the money comes from,
it comes so fast. Every bargain you
make seems to turn into gold. You
contract few bad debts. You are as
founded with large dividends. You in
vest more and more capital. You won
der how men can be content with a
small business gathering in only a hun
dred dollars where you reap your
thousands. These are the seven years
Of plenty. Now, Joseph, is the time to
prepare for famine, fox To almost every
man there do come seven years Of fam
inc. You will be sick; You will be un--
fortunate; you will be %defraude"; You
will be disappointed; you viii be old,
and if you have no st0renouso upon
which to fall back yon may be
FAMINF-sTRuCK.
We have no admir- ton for this de-
nying ones self Of all present comfort
and luxury for the mere pleasure If
boarding up, this grasping for the
mere pleasure Of seeing how large a
a pile You can get, this always being
poor and cramped because as so0n as
a collar comes in il is SEPT out 10 see
if it can't find another dollar to carry
il'fislh ~ 10 DAAh pN3t tiitit 10 al lilNCf-
ligcnt and nohle-minded forecast
which We love TO see in men WHO have
families and kindred dependent upon
them for the blessings Of education and
home. GOd sends us TO the insects for
lesson, which while they do not stint
themselves in the present, do not for
get their dlty TO forestall the future:
go to the ant, thou sluggard consider
her ways and be wise, which, having
no gpide, oveTseer, or ruler, provideth
her meat III the summer and gathereth
her food in the harvest" Now there
are two ways Of laying up money; the
one by investing it in stock and depos-
itirg it in banks and loaning it on
bond aad mortgage. The other way
of laying up money is giving it away.
He is the safest who makes both of
these investments. But the man who
devotes none Of his gain to the
CAUSE OF CHRIST
and thinks only Of his own comfort and
luxury, is not safe, | don't care how his
money is invested. He acted as the
rose if it should say: 81 will hold my
breath and no one shall have a snatch
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